Improvement in weather-strips for doors, windows



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN T. FOSTER AND JACOB J. BANTA, OF JERSEY CITY, NET JERSEY, `AND JAMES H. BANTA, OF PIERMONT, NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER-STRIPS FOR DO0RS, WINDOWS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 16,874, dated March 24, 1857.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, JOHN T. FOSTER and J AOOB J. BANTA, of Jersey City,'in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, and J AMES H. BANTA, of Piermont, in the county of Rockland and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use certain new and useful Improvements in Teather-Strips for Windows, Doors, 85o.; and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the anneXed drawings, making part of this specification, Whereinl Figure l is an elevation of a door fitted with our improvements, the edges of the door being shown as removed forrthe purpose of eX- hibiting the otherparts; and Fig. 2 is a seetional plan near the bottom of the door.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

The nature of our said invention consists `in the use of one or more strips of metal or similar substance inserted within deep narrow grooves or mortises on one or Vmore sides of a door or windowand sustained by pins in diagonal slots in such-a manner that the shutting of the door or window forces out the metallic strip or bar, bringing its edge -into contact with the sill or post of the door, excluding all wind, dust, rite.; and we also make use of said Weather-strip on the side of the door locking-bar `when desired.

In the drawings, ct is a deep groove or sawcut in the bottom edge of the door of sufficient depth to receivethe metallic strip or bar b.

l lare diagonal slots or mortises in said bar, through which pins 2 2 pass, and c is a spring tending' to force said bar to that side of the door on which the hinges are placed. Consequently said spring tends to draw said bar b within the groove a by sliding the same diagonally up onto thepins 2 2; but when the Y door is shut the end of the bar Z9 (that was projected beyond the vertical edge of the door by the spring c at the same time that saidbar was raised) takes a plate G, attached to the door-jamb near the sill, and`th`ereby,the door and pins 2 2 continuing to move while the bar is sustained at its end, causes the pins 2 2 to travel in the diagonal slots l l and force the bar downonto thev sill. In order to tit this bar b into place, as well as the others hereinafter mentioned, the saw-cuts or deep grooves should be formed while the door is oil? its hinges. The same should then be hung in place and the bar b laid on the sill in its right place and holes bored through the door at the upper end of the diagonal mortises l l, so that when the said bar is inserted in its groove and sustained by the pins 2f 2 it shall act correctly and set down closely onto the sill when closed, and a spring (shown by dotted linesat d) may be used -in place of that at c, because the same can be more easily attached to the edge of the door in a mortise `than the spring c.

When desired, the top edge of the door can be iitted with a similar weather-strip e, acting in precisely the same manner as 'thaton the bottom, except that a spring is unnecessary,

because the `bar will descend diagonally by its own weight.

Should it be desired to insert a weathern strip in the vertical moving edge of the door, the same may be iitted as shown at f. In this case the upper end of the bar f is tobe formed. with a jaw receiving a" tongue on the end of the bar e, and the` diagonal slots 2 and 3 in said bars `e and f being parallel, the said bars move together diagonally into the' upper corner of the door-jamb, and the lower end of this bar f is pressed out by the bar h, at which point there is a sliding motion between the parts.

The bar f may be used as a lock to the door by forming a groove 5 Vin the jamb, (see Fig. 2,) and yforming horizontal slots 2l atthe base of the inclined slots and providing a suitable lock at g to throw the bar fout into the groove 5, and, if desired, a p in may be inserted from the inner side of thedoor into a hole in said bar f, rend ering the fastening perfectly secure.

It will be apparent that our invention may be applied with the greatest ease to easement or folding French Windows as well as to doors, or may be used under any other ci rcumstances in which it may be available.

We are well aware that metallic strips or bars have been inserted in a deep groove in the door and have been forced down; onto the sill by means of levers andv links, that give said downward motion as the door shuts, and

the ends of said metallic strips (or a rod acting on the same) come in contact with the doorjamb. Our invention therefore does not rev late to any such device; but we are not aware that any plate or bar forming a Weather-,strip j has ever before been made with. diagonal slots taking pins in the door, tted and operating as specified, whereby the parts are simple,

easily fitted to the door without injuring the same, cheap, and not liable to get out of repair, at thesame time avoiding the cumbersome and costly fittings that have heretofore strip in shutting the door shall cause the' idem.

weather-strip to press onto the sill or casing, substantially as and for the purposes specified, it being distinctly understood that we lay no claim to a bar having a similar movement, but actuated by levers, rods, or links.

2. The manner hereinl specied of hanging the vertical weather-strip f in connection with the upper and lower weather-strip b and @,so that the endwise motion of the latter strips shall force said strip f against the vertical door-post, as specified.

In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our signatures this 19th day of December, 1856.

J. T. FOSTER. J. J. BANTA. J. H. BANTA.

Witnesses:

LEMUEL W. SERRELL, THOMAS G. HAROLD. 

